I always look forward to this time of year as the annual UKOUG conference in Birmingham approaches but this year I think I’m looking forward to it more than ever.
As I’ll have delivered both of my own presentations at previous events my slides will be done before I arrive and so, after a nice trip back to Edinburgh on the way, I should be able to relax even more during the social events and make the most of the absolutely top-notch agenda. My only real problems with the agenda are that after my own slots were shuffled around a bit, I’m going to miss other presentations I wanted to see but agenda clashes are inevitable at UKOUG.
Sunday
14:35 Optimizer Statistics – a fresh approach – Connor McDonald
15:30 Statistics Gathering and Histograms – Wolfgang Breitling
16:40 Performance & High Availability Panel Session
Monday
10:00 SQL Tuning – Kyle Hailey
11:05 A Deep Dive into the SQL Monitoring Report – Greg Rahn
12:15 Oracle Optimizer – Upgrading to 11g without pain – Maria Colgan
14:30 Using Ashmon – Wolfgang Breitling
14:30 ADR – John Hallas
15:25 Exadata I/O Resource Management – Marc Fielding
16:35 Adaptive Cursor Sharing – An Introduction – Harald van Breederode
16:35 The DB Time Performance Method (part 1) – Graham Wood and John Beresniewicz
17:45 Performance and Stability with 11g SPM – Me
18:45 Learning about Life through Business and Software – Cary Millsap
19:45 Exhibition Welcome Drinks
20:45 Focus Pubs
Tuesday
10:10 Who’s afraid of Analytic Functions? – Alex Nuijten
11:15 Execution Plan Interpretation – Joze Senegacnik
12:25 Instrumentation – Why You Should Care – Cary Millsap
14:40 ASH Outliers – Detecting Unusual Events in ASH – John Beresniewicz
15:35 Can people be identified in the database? – Pete Finnigan
16:40 Beating the Oracle Optimizer – Jonathan Lewis
17:50 Challenges and Chances of the 11g Query Optimizer – Christian Antognini
20:00 Evening social and networking
Wednesday
09:00 Statistics on Partitioned Objects – Me
10:10 About multiblock reads – Frits Hoogland
11:20 Latch Internals in 2011 – Andrey Nikolaev
12:30 PGA Memory Management Revisited – Joze Senegacnik
15:20 Is This The Future of Load & Performance Testing? – Chris Jones
16:15 Transaction Analysis & Diagnosis using Profiling – David Owen
Let’s see how many attendees I get at 9:00 on Wednesday morning for a statistics presentation!
So when did Edinburgh magically move South to be between London and Birmingham?
As always at the UKOUG, it is more often a case of choosing between 2 or 3 talks you want to go to than having a spot where nothing grabs your attention. Looks like we will be in several of the same talks (though not the 9am one on Wed, sorry 🙂 ).
So when did Edinburgh magically move South to be between London and Birmingham?
You know me … I like to take the road less travelled 😉
Looks like we will be in several of the same talks (though not the 9am one on Wed, sorry 🙂 ).
Mmm, yes, well I deliberately neglected to mention JL talking about Redo and Joel Goodman talking about auto-parallelism at the same time. With the hangovers on top … I’m not expecting a big audience in mine!
Doug, are doing Movember again this year?
It depends what you mean, Vic 😉
If you mean … do I already have ridiculous facial hair for which I’m inviting charitable contributions then the answer is yes …. http://mobro.co/dougburns
If you mean … do I plan to be on the stage in Hall 1 as part of a ludicrous panto, then the answer is probably no.
However, if someone bribes me enough then all things are possible … 😉
It could be worse, you could be the one with the stats and modelling data distributions presentation at 16:15 on Wednesday! CARDINALITY:1 🙁
Ouch! Tough gig ….
🙂 Interesting for sure. Let us know how many you got for the statistics presentation!
Well, a lot more people than I expected! Which I was very grateful for …